Garment dryer



March 7, 1967 M. KURZ V GARMENT DRYER File d July e, 1965 INVENTOR.

HILTON KURZ United States Patent 3,307,712 GARMENT DRYER Milton Kurz, 461 Barnard Ave. Cedarhurst, N.Y.

Filed July 6, 1965, Ser. N0. 469,591 Claims. (C1. 211177) hereinafter deseribed and more particularly recited in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings in which is shown one of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention,

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the garment dryer in assembled form ready to use,

FIG. 2 is a detail seotional view taken along line 2-2 of FIG. 1,

FIG. 3 is a detail enlarged view showing the connection of the supporting struts 01 the garment dryer to the mesh fabric screen, and

FIG. 4 is a detail sectional view taken along line 44 of FIG. 3.

Referring now to the drawings, the garment dryer comprises a rectangular sheet of mesh fabric screen 11, preierably square, as shown, Which has a reinfo-rcing selvage 12 around its periphery with eyelets 13 at each of the corners of the screen 11.

Supporting the screen in stretched condition -are a pair of identical elongated strips 14 and 15 which may be of wood, metal '01 plastic so long as they are resilient and readily bendable.

Bach of the strips 14 and 15 is 0f length greater than the length of the diagonal of the screen 11 and the strips are preferably pi\rotally connected to each other midway between their ends by a rivet 16 so that the strips may readily be rotated relative t-o each other and moved from juxtaposition to a position in which they are at right angles to each other.

The end of each of the strips 14 and 15 is of reduced thickness defining a projection 17 to facilitate insertion of each of the projeotions into an associated opening defined by one of the eyelets 13.

T0 assemble the garment dryer, the strips 14 and 15 are moved so that they are at right angles to each other and a projection 17 is inserted into each of the eyelets 13.

As the strips are of greater length than the diagonals of the screen, it is apparent that when assembled the strips will be bowed as shown in FIG. 1 exerting tensio-n against 3,307712 Patented Mar. 7, 1967 each of the corners of the screen so that the latter Will be maintained in taut condition.

In use of the garment dryer, it is placed, for example, on the floor of a room and by reason of the retention of the centers of the strips by the rivet 16, a relative flat region 18 will be provided so that the dryer Will remain substantially level. The washed garment, for example, a sweater, is laid out on the screen and by reason of the fact that there will be circulation of air beneath the garment and through the screen, the garment Will dry relatively quickly.

With the construction above described, a relatively inexpensive garment dryer is provided which may readily be fabricated at low cost and may readily be disassembled for storage and shipment.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely difi?erent embodirnents of this invention could be made without departing from the scope of the claims, it is intended that all matter comtained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted -as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described 1hy invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A garment dryer comprising a rectangular sheet of perforated material and a pair of resilient flexible strips, each of greater length than the associated diagonal of said sheet, and complementary means at the ends of each of said strips and the corners of each of said sheet for releasable engagement of said strip ends with said eorners Whereby said strips will -be bowed and the sheet will be maintained under tension.

2. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which means are provided movably to connect the centers of each of said strips.

3. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which a rivet is provided rot-atably connecting the centers of each of said strips.

4. The combination set forth in claim 1 in Which said sheet is square and said strips are of identical length.

5. The combination set forth in claim 1 in which said sheet has a reinforcing edge around the periphery thereof, an eyelet extends through each of the corners of said sheet and each of said strips has a reduced portion at each end defining a projection which extends through an associated eyelet. References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,714978 8/ 1955 Smith 22369 3237778 3/1966 Hoodis 211-86 FOREIGN PATENTS 316,138 11/1919 Germany.

CLAUDE A. LE ROY, Primary Examiner.

W. D. LOULAN Assistant Examz'ner. 

1. A GARMENT DRYER COMPRISING A RECTANGULAR SHEET OF PERFORATED MATERIAL AND A PAIR OF RESILIENT FLEXIBLE STRIPS, EACH OF GREATER LENGTH THAN THE ASSOCIATED DIAGONAL OF SAID SHEET, AND COMPLEMENTARY MEANS AT THE ENDS OF EACH OF SAID STRIPS AND THE CORNERS OF EACH OF SAID SHEET FOR RELEASABLE ENGAGEMENT OF SAID STRIP ENDS WITH SAID CORNERS WHEREBY SAID STRIPS WILL BE BOWED AND THE SHEET WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER TENSION. 